Andrew Van Ginkel

CAREER NOTES

• Drafted in the fifth round of the 2019 NFL Draft, Brian Flores' first draft class as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
• Started 42 of the 73 games he played in five seasons (2019-23) with the Miami Dolphins and recorded 250 total tackles, including 31 for loss, 17.0 sacks, one interception, four forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries (one returned for a touchdown).
• Returned a fumble 78 yards for a touchdown during the 2020 season, the second-longest fumble return by a Dolphin all-time.
• During the 2022 season, recovered a blocked punt and returned it 25 yards for a touchdown, marking the longest blocked punt returned for a touchdown in franchise history.
• Became just the 10th Viking in team history to return two interceptions for touchdowns in a season, and the first to do so since S Harrison Smith during the 2012 season (Week 1 and Week 5 of the 2024 season).
• The first player in NFL history with 3.0 sacks and multiple interception-return touchdowns in his team's first five games of a season.
• Joined OLB Jonathan Greenard as the second Viking to reach 10 sacks this season with his 2.0-sack performance in Week 16 at Seattle (12/22/24). It is just the 12th occurrence in team history that multiple players have reached double-digit sack totals in a season and the fourth since 2000.
• Joined Jason Taylor (2006) as the only two players to post 10+ sacks and two interception-return touchdowns in a season since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
• Since joining the Vikings in 2024, he has recorded 18.5 sacks, which are tied with Danielle Hunter for the fourth-most by a player in his first two seasons with Minnesota since 1982.
• Since making his NFL debut in 2019, Van Ginkel has logged 60 tackles for loss, 35.5 sacks and 37 passes defensed. He is joined by Cameron Heyward and T.J. Watt as the only other players in the NFL to hit those marks in that span.

CAREER NOTES

• Drafted in the fifth round of the 2019 NFL Draft, Brian Flores' first draft class as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
• Started 42 of the 73 games he played in five seasons (2019-23) with the Miami Dolphins and recorded 250 total tackles, including 31 for loss, 17.0 sacks, one interception, four forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries (one returned for a touchdown).
• Returned a fumble 78 yards for a touchdown during the 2020 season, the second-longest fumble return by a Dolphin all-time.
• During the 2022 season, recovered a blocked punt and returned it 25 yards for a touchdown, marking the longest blocked punt returned for a touchdown in franchise history.
• Became just the 10th Viking in team history to return two interceptions for touchdowns in a season, and the first to do so since S Harrison Smith during the 2012 season (Week 1 and Week 5 of the 2024 season).
• The first player in NFL history with 3.0 sacks and multiple interception-return touchdowns in his team's first five games of a season.
• Joined OLB Jonathan Greenard as the second Viking to reach 10 sacks this season with his 2.0-sack performance in Week 16 at Seattle (12/22/24). It is just the 12th occurrence in team history that multiple players have reached double-digit sack totals in a season and the fourth since 2000.
• Joined Jason Taylor (2006) as the only two players to post 10+ sacks and two interception-return touchdowns in a season since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
• Since joining the Vikings in 2024, he has recorded 18.5 sacks, which are tied with Danielle Hunter for the fourth-most by a player in his first two seasons with Minnesota since 1982.
• Since making his NFL debut in 2019, Van Ginkel has logged 60 tackles for loss, 35.5 sacks and 37 passes defensed. He is joined by Cameron Heyward and T.J. Watt as the only other players in the NFL to hit those marks in that span.

HONORS

• Associated Press All-Pro Second Team (2024)
• 2024 Pro Bowl
• Pro Football Writers of America All-NFC (2024)
• NFC Defensive Player of the Week (Week 16, 2024)

2025 | MINNESOTA VIKINGS

• Started 11 of the 12 games he appeared in during the 2025 season, finishing with 54 tackles, including 11 for loss, 7.0 sacks, 13 QBH, one interception, 10 passes defensed and two fumble recoveries.
• Had five tackles, including two for loss, and two passes defensed in Week 18 vs. Green Bay (1/4). His 10 passes defensed in 2025 mark a new single-season caree high.
• Tallied five tackles, 1.5 sacks and two fumble recoveries in Week 17 vs. Detroit (12/25).
• In his 100th career game in Week 16 at the New York Giants (12/21), posted four tackles, including one for loss, 1.0 sack and one pass defensed.
• In Week 15 at Dallas (12/14) on Sunday Night Football, logged four tackles, 0.5 sacks and four QB hits.
• Recorded his first interception of the season and fifth of his career in Week 14 vs. Washington (12/7), returning it 41-yards. It was the second-longest interception of his career (63 yards vs. N.Y. Jets in Week 5 of the 2024 season). He also had four tackles and two passes defensed.
• Had five tackles, including one for loss, 1.0 sack and one QB hit in Week 13 at Seattle (11/30).
• In Week 12 at Green Bay (11/23), recorded five tackles, including one for loss, and one pass defensed.
• Posted eight tackles, including two for loss, and 1.0 sack in Week 11 vs. Chicago (11/16). His eight tackles tied for the second most in a game in his career.
• Logged four tackles, one QB hit and two passes defensed in Week 10 vs. Baltimore (11/9).
• Collected three tackles, including one for loss, and one QB hit in Week 9 at Detroit (11/2).
• Was inactive due to injury in Weeks 4-5 and Weeks 7-8.
• Recorded two sacks in Week 3  vs. Cincinnati (9/21) despite playing just eight defensive snaps, his fourth game as a Viking with multiple sacks. It brought his career total to 30.5 sacks.
• Was inactive due to injury in Week 2 vs. Atlanta (9/14).
• Had five tackles, including one for loss, and two passes defensed in the season opener in Week 1 at Chicago (9/8) on Monday Night Football.

2024 | MINNESOTA VIKINGS

• Started all 17 of the Vikings games during his first season in Minnesota in 2024, recording single-season career highs in tackles (79), tackles for loss (18), sacks (11.5), interceptions (two) and interception-return touchdowns (two).
• His 18 TFLs doubled his previous season best in 2021 (nine) and his 11.5 sacks were just shy of doubling his previous career high of 6.0 sacks during the 2023 season.
• Started his second career postseason contest during the Wild Card Round in Arizona against the L.A. Rams (1/13), logging three total tackles, 1.0 sack and a QB hit.
• Recorded seven tackles, including one for loss, and one pass defensed in Week 18 at Detroit (1/5).
• Had a share in a sack with LB Blake Cashman in Week 17 vs. Green Bay (12/29), raising his season total to a team-leading 11.5 sacks. He also had three tackles and one QB hit.
• Accounted for both of the Vikings sacks in Week 16 at Seattle (12/22), bringing his season total to 11. Also had five tackles and three QB hits.
• In Week 13 vs. Arizona (12/1), notched six tackles, including one for loss, and a quarterback hit.
• Tallied seven tackles, 1.0 sack - his ninth of the season - and one pass defensed in Week 12 at Chicago (11/24).
• Had back-to-back sacks during the second quarter in Week 11 at Tennessee (11/17). His final stat line included eight tackles, including three for loss, 2.0 sacks and two quarterback hits.
• Recorded his sixth sack of the season in Week 10 at Jacksonville (11/10), tying his single-season career high from 2023. Also had three tackles, including two for loss, and one quarterback hit.
• Notched a pair of tackles and one quarterback hit in Week 9 vs. Indianapolis on Sunday Night Football (11/3).
• In Week 8 at the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday Night Football (10/24), recorded seven tackles, including two for loss, and one quarterback hit.
• Recorded a pair of sacks in Week 7 vs. Detroit (10/20), marking his fourth game this season with at least 1.0 sack and his first multi-sack performance. He totaled seven tackles, including three for loss, two quarterback hits and forced a fumble.
• Had a 63-yard pick-six against the New York Jets in Week 5 in London (10/6), the longest by a Vikings LB since Week 1 of the 2016 season at Tennessee (Eric Kendricks, 77 yards).
• Became just the 10th Viking in team history to return two interceptions for touchdowns in a season, and the first to do so since S Harrison Smith during the 2012 season. Also became the first player in NFL history with 3.0 sacks and multiple interception-return touchdowns in his team's first five games of a season.
• Recorded 1.0 sack in each of the Vikings first three games of the season, bringing his career total to 20.0.
• Tied for a team-high six tackles vs. Houston in Week 3 (9/22), including one for loss, and had 1.0 sack and a quarterback hurry.
• Recorded his second sack as a Viking in the team's home opener vs. San Francisco (9/15). Finished tackles, including two for loss, one sack, one quarterback hurry and a pass defensed.
• Made his Vikings debut in Week 1, starting at OLB at the New York Giants (9/8) and recorded the team's first pick six since Patrick Peterson vs. Chicago on (1/9/22), snapping a 34-game drought.
• Also captured his first sack as a Viking during the game's first quarter, becoming just the third player in franchise history since 2000 to record both an interception and a sack in a season opener (Harrison Smith, 2014 and 2018 & Kevin Williams, 2007).

2023 | MIAMI DOLPHINS

• Started 11 of the 17 games he played, collecting 69 total tackles, including eight for loss and a single-season career-high 6.0 sacks. He also had one interception and recovered a fumble.
• Notched his second career interception in Week 13 (12/3) at Washington.

2022 | MIAMI DOLPHINS

• Played in 17 contests, starting five, and amassed 47 total tackles, including three for loss, an interception and two passes defensed.
• Hauled in his first career interception in Week 12 against Houston (11/27), picking off QB Kyle Allen and returning it 23 yards.
• At Chicago in Week 9 (11/6), recovered a blocked punt in the second quarter and returned it 25 yards for a touchdown, marking the longest blocked punt returned for a touchdown in franchise history.

2021 | MIAMI DOLPHINS

• Saw action in 17 games, making 14 starts, and posted career highs in total tackles (71) and tackles for loss (nine). Also had 4.0 sacks, seven passes defensed and forced a fumble.

2020 | MIAMI DOLPHINS

• Started 11 of the 16 games he played, totaling 48 total tackles, including seven for loss, 5.5 sacks, four passes defensed, three forced fumbles and a fumble returned for a touchdown.
• Against the Los Angeles Rams in Week 8 (11/1), returned a fumble 78 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter, the second-longest fumble return in team history.

2019 | MIAMI DOLPHINS

• Appeared in six games, including one start, as a rookie. Notched 15 total tackles, including four for loss, 1.0 sack and recovered a fumble.

COLLEGE - SOUTH DAKOTA/IOWA WESTERN CC/WISCONSIN

• In two seasons (2017-18) at Wisconsin, played in 27 games, starting 10. Logged 99 total tackles, including 19.5 for loss and 12.0 sacks, seven passes defensed, two interceptions and four forced fumbles.
• In 2016 at Iowa Western, played in 11 games and logged 50 tackles, including 13 for loss and 3.5 sacks. Also recorded an interception and a fumble recovery.
• Spent two years at South Dakota (2014-15) and was named Missouri Valley Football Conference Freshman of the Year and tabbed to the MVFC All-Newcomer team as a redshirt freshman in 2015.

HONORS

• All-Big Ten Third Team (Coaches, 2018)
• All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (Media, 2018)
• MVFC Freshman of the Year (2015)
• MVFC All-Newcomer Team (2015)

PREP - BOYDEN-HULL/ROCK VALLEY (IOWA)

• Played on both sides of the ball at quarterback and defensive back.
• In his career, amassed 176 tackles, 10 interceptions and 10 fumble recoveries.
• As a senior, recorded 1,466 passing yards and 17 touchdowns, adding 1,413 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns on the ground. Posted 95 tackles and was named first-team all-state at defensive back.
• Also lettered in basketball and track.

OFF THE FIELD

• Son of Henry and Karen Van Ginkel.
• Brothers, Kyle and Nate, played linebacker at Northwestern College (Iowa).
• Married his high school sweetheart*,* Samantha, in February of 2020, and the couple has three sons - Leo, Ripken  and Truett.
• Has two dogs - Ryder and Piper.
• Active in the community while with Miami. In 2023, visited pediatric cancer patients at a local children's hospital and hosted multiple fundraising events throughout the season to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.
• Graduated with a degree in agricultural business management in December 2018 from Wisconsin.